„Socjologia aborcji”. Sposoby przedstawiania aborcji we współczesnym dyskursie nauk społecznych
‘The Sociology of Abortion’: Ways of Representing Abortion in the Contemporary Discourse of Social Sciences

Summary/Abstract: The article herein analyzes the contemporary discourse of social sciences with regard to the presence of research on abortion within it. Abortion is a regular medical practice in the world. At the same time, it is one of the most controversial yet vivid topics of public discussions, engaging religious, feminist, and political circles. In my paper, I am looking for an answer to the question about whether the popularity of this subject in the public sphere is reflected within the discourse of social sciences. I am interested in how focusing the discourse on particular research perspectives – individual, social, institutional, and methodological – constructs ‘the sociology of abortion.’ The analysis of the discourse on abortion shows that research on abortion in the most prestigious academic journals concerns mostly the Anglo-American societies. Moreover, research on abortion constitutes a small percentage of all articles published in the analyzed social-sciences journals, while the dominant perspective involves researching abortion through the prism of social opinions. The least attention is paid to researching abortion from the individual perspective that involves the experiences of those women who have had abortion.

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